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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a messag

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison

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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison

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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. – Thomas Lynch

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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there cant be much to it. – James Schuyler

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And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. – Horace, quoted in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern,

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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. – James Dickey

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